What Happened To The Broiled Fish Jesus Ate After His Resurrection?

broiled fish

While they were talking about this, Jesus^[l] himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”^[m] 37 They were startled and terrified and thought that they were seeing a ghost. ³⁸ He said to them, “Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? ³⁹ Look at my hands and my feet; see that it is I myself. Touch me and see, for a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.” ⁴⁰ And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.^[n] 41 Yet for all their joy they were still disbelieving and wondering, and he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?” ⁴² They gave him a piece of broiled fish,^[o] 43 and he took it and ate in their presence.

–the Gospel of Luke, chapter 24

What happened to that fish???

The Apostle Paul believed that Jesus was resurrected in a heavenly (extra-terrestrial) body. At the moment of his resurrection, Jesus’ earthly body was completely transformed into an extra-terrestrial body. This body did not have flesh and blood because Paul did not believe that flesh and blood could enter heaven.

Modern Trinitarian Christians have another view. As we saw in my review of NT scholar Bart Ehrman’s Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife, this view is first seen in the Gospel of Luke (written several decades after Paul was dead). Trinitarians believe that at the moment of his resurrection, Jesus’ original earthly body was revivified (the dead cells of Jesus’ body were brought back to life). At the same time, this original flesh and blood body was transformed into a body fit for heaven, but only in the sense that it could not get sick, would not grow old, and possessed magical powers: it could walk through walls and locked doors; it could teleport in the blink of an eye from one location to another. But it still looked and felt like a human body.

Just ask Doubting Thomas!

So what happened to that fish?

If Jesus had a flesh and blood body after his resurrection then he still had a digestive tract. The fish he ate in Luke 24: 42-43 would have been digested. And what happens to digested food? Some of it incorporates into the body which ingested it. But some of it doesn’t. Some of it is eliminated from the body. Some of it becomes…poop.

Poop (feces) is not just digested food and water. Feces contains DNA; the DNA of the body from which the feces was excreted. DNA is what makes you, you.

So that raises an interesting, albeit messy, question: If Jesus remained on earth for another forty days, that fish was at least partially eliminated from Jesus’ body. Poop.

Yes, it was poop, but it was heavenly, eternal, poop because it contained Jesus’ DNA. Eternal Jesus was in that poop.

So here is the question: Did Jesus take his eternal, DNA-containing poop with him to heaven at his Ascension, or, is there some eternal Jesus poop lying around somewhere in modern Palestine?

Inquiring minds want to know!

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